Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brakes are installed on dive-bombers to maintain constant speed in the dive, give the pilot a steady aiming platform...
Edge of Darkness (Warner) is the Hollywood Western formula applied to occupied Norway. It provides two active hours of heroism and villainy with Guerrilla Errol Flynn as the lover of anti-Nazi Ann Sheridan. There are constant short pauses for simplified political ideology. Otherwise the picture keeps ripping on through to a non-ideological climax in which almost everyone is wiped out except Sheridan and Flynn...
...assiduously did the CAPPORT, L.A. carry on his constant inspections that civilian port guards said: "There are two things to watch out for: the Japs and Higbee." He loved to demonstrate that Los Angeles was inadequately guarded against fire and the enemy. Harbor industrialists and merchants were shocked out of their complacency when Higbee took them on tour. Some Higbee legends...
Blame must be placed, since he is top boss, on the Sun's bumpkinish, pumpkinish Publisher Silliman Evans, righthand man to Owner Marshall Field. Publisher Evans has been either unwilling or unable to install high-powered, adequately experienced men in executive jobs. Result: a constant, white-hot office turmoil, and one of the biggest turnovers of employes in newspaper annals. For many, the Sun newsroom has been a worrisome place to work...
Under the constant pounding, the Del Commune began to stagger. Her joints creaked. With every blow her decks seemed to buckle. She sprang a leak under the stern transom. Given time, she seemed bound to shake herself to pieces. "You just cain't go kickin' this river around this way," murmured one of Captain Joe's copilots. "You just cain...